O praise ye the Lord, Prepare your glad voice

Verse 1

O praise ye the Lord! Prepare your glad voice, new songs with his saints assembled to sing; before his Creator let Israel rejoice, and children of Zion be glad in their King.

Verse 2

And let them his name extol in the dance; with timbrel and harp his praises express; who always takes pleasure his saints to advance, and with his salvation the humble to bless.

Verse 3

His saints shall sing loud with glory and joy, and rest undismayed; with songs in the night the praise of Jehovah their lips shall employ; a sword in their right hand two-edged for the fight;

Verse 4

The heathen to judge, their pride to consume, to fetter their kings, their princes to bind; to execute on them the long-decreed doom; such honour for ever the holy shall find. Hallelujah.